Pevensey and Westham Historical Society

The Edwardian tea garden with an ornamental lake.

Ash trees were not common in Pevensey, but early in the nineteenth century there was a fine ancient specimen in the churchyard of St Nicolas. In November 1839, the vicar decided to cut it down.

Horace Field was a legend in his own lifetime. He worked on the marshes as a “looker” for many years. As a looker, his job was to visit and count every day – twice a day at and after lambing time – all the cattle and sheep, numbering thousands during the summer – in fields spread over hundreds of acres of grazing land on Pevensey Marsh.

On August 6th 1931, at about 13.30, an exhausted Jim Mollison landed his Gipsy Moth biplane on the beach at Pevensey Bay; by the next day he was one of the best known men in the Empire.

Lily Woolven, the Insubordinate Schoolmistress of Hankham